Software piracy has always been a controversial issue
in today's high-tech society. As the number of computer
users increases, the number of software piracy arises with
it as well. The software industry claims that software
piracy has cost them billions of dollars each year, and thus
should be stopped at all cost. However, that was just
a one-sided figure estimated by the industry. In this
paper, I will show that the software industry over-
exaggerate on this figure, and in fact, software piracy
helps the software industry in several ways. I will justify
the usefulness of piracy through examples and reasoning.